Archive for November, 2015

Why do people have to be so hateful? If you spend any time on social media these days is mostly someone b$%#@ing about what someone else does or doesn’t believe. If you’re a Christian than you are a mean nasty person who believes that everyone who doesn’t live the way you do is going to hell. Then there’s the whole right wing /left wing christen thing where they all seem to think the other side is going to hell.

Supposedly to all Christians non-Christians are evil, wrong, and damned. Of course to all non-Christians Christians are hypocritical sh@#s who don’t care about anything but convincing them that they must change and be like them.

I watch all this crap. I watch as friends (Christian, Pagan, agnostic alike) all have moments when the bash on someone else’s beliefs and just want to shout “Can’t we be friends”. I hate it when I read something a friend writes in attack of a stereotypical Christian belief, a belief that isn’t actually all that accurate, a belief that I don’t actually know a single Christian who actually believes that way. I feel the same frustration when I see other beliefs attacked, when I see post about how Wicca is devil worship or other Evils that are perceived of Pagan faiths. Evil believed of any religion or faith that is not founded in fact frustrates me. So often if you do a modicum of research (I don’t mean searching Meme’s or Wikipedia but actual research) you find that much of what the world is fighting over is bunk, it’s misunderstood, misinterpreted beliefs. It’s the junk that the minority of people spews as fact but is actually made up garbage to insight fighting for God knows what reason.

I wish we as a people could just find a way to go out into the world in love and caring, instead of judgment and hate. I am a Christian and there are times when I want to run from that word because of what it has come to represent for so many. Instead of representing a loving caring God and people it seems to represent so much hate and anger.

I try so hard to live my life by two simple rules, “loving God” and “loving people”. I’m not perfect (so so far from it) and I fail sometimes (ok a lot) but the reality is in my mind the latter is what the world needs most. It needs people who will just show love and kindness to one another regardless of our differences or similarities.